· Private foundation
Focus Central America
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k86 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| PEACEWORKS | $45,050 |
| AGUA PARA EL PUEBLO | $40,000 |
| AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA | $35,000 |
| FUNDACION HERENCIA VIVA | $32,000 |
| PENNAT | $31,565 |
| ASOCIACION CEDCAS DE LOS LAGO | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| FCAM | $30,000 |
| ASAPROSAR | $30,000 |
| UN MUNDO | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| WINGS GUATEMALA | $30,000 |
| CONTEXTOS | $30,000 |
| AMOS HOPE AND HEALTH | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 25% of grant dollars ($1.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 75% that went abroad ($3.4M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 75% of all-years giving ($3.4M)
7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
98 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $432k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PIPEACEWORKS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $129k · revenue +32%
- CICLEAN INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2021–2023 · $80k · revenue ×16
- TITEENSMART INTERNATIONAL3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- PPADECOMSMone grant, 2023 · $15k
- ADAMIGOS DEL LAGO ATITLANone grant, 2023 · $15k
- AACMMone grant, 2023 · $15k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
Natura International conserves rainforests and other key natural ecosystems and the endangered species they contain through creation of protected areas in collaboration with local governments and communities in Latin America. In this way…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The mission of the Peoples Consultants is to provide material and intellectual support to communities organizations and individuals from developing countries to enable them to satisfy and protect their basic human rights such as good…
To improve access, quality and relevance of education for youth in rural central america.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Water supply systems in Central America
Technoserve's mission is to fight poverty by helping people build regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 137 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Focus Central America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Focus Central America. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of Hunterdon County: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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